Okay, we have religious nutters predicting all the time.

Sofabeast comments on Sep 15, 2020:

The empire needs to expand or contract. It cannot maintain itself as a stable constant. I'll expand further later....

273kelvin replies on Sep 15, 2020:

China stayed static for a long time, But it's not just empires, change is the only constant

Is this the end of America?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Trump cannot bring anything together unless you show openly that you like him. Think on that before you call him a leader. It has been pointed out that MEGA hats are a "mark in the forehead." I found that rather comical. One school of thought says Trump could resign at last minute so that Pence ...

273kelvin replies on Sep 15, 2020:

@Bobby9 I think he may well try but I also think that one or two generals will "advise" him not to push it.

Hope your day was better then this .

273kelvin comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Would you mind if I copy-paste this to my FB page? I have some younger COVID sceptic people on there and I would like them to read this.

273kelvin replies on Sep 15, 2020:

@NoMagicCookie Okay thanks. I hope things get easier soon. Btw you are still (just) behind the UK per capita death rate. We are at 41,000 so far with about single- double figures each day atm, Considering our population is around 1/5 of yours you have about a week or so before you are there. That's what makes me so mad about the sceptics here.

Is this the end of America?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Trump cannot bring anything together unless you show openly that you like him. Think on that before you call him a leader. It has been pointed out that MEGA hats are a "mark in the forehead." I found that rather comical. One school of thought says Trump could resign at last minute so that Pence ...

273kelvin replies on Sep 15, 2020:

Nixon did it with Ford. VP Agnew resigned under a cloud a week or 2 earlier and Ford pardoned them both I think, certainly Nixon. Constitutionally it is feasible whether Trump will go of his own accord is doubtful considering is "perfect and tremendous" leadership. If it does happen then it will be after the election, He is too delusional to think he will lose. It may take a respective impeachment if that is possible which I doubt or a constitutional amendment which would require a 2/3s majority in the Senate to stop it. The election is constitutionally unstoppable and the result has to stand. Even the civil war could not stop that. So if Biden gets the electoral college votes then he is POTUS in January barring any coups.

Okay, we have religious nutters predicting all the time.

Julie808 comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Maybe Trump will give Alaska to Russia as a thank you gift for the election help. And offer Hawaii up to pay Russia for the first vaccine that becomes available. Silly things, but yes I do think we've likely seen the end of America as we know it, we may never recover from the corruption and ...

273kelvin replies on Sep 15, 2020:

If I am right (and I do hope that I am wrong), then it is very likely to bring the whole capitalist system down with it. Either way, it probably means the end of the USA as the preeminent world power

Okay, we have religious nutters predicting all the time.

Mofo1953 comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Not great at all.

273kelvin replies on Sep 15, 2020:

Plus... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/040115/reasons-why-china-buys-us-treasury-bonds.asp

Okay, we have religious nutters predicting all the time.

Mofo1953 comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Not great at all.

273kelvin replies on Sep 15, 2020:

Really! So the USA has faired very well during this crisis then? Okay, I missed out on the racial tension but that is a byproduct of division and a collapsed economy. And to be fair it's less than 5 months. We still have the election and whether the result will be accepted. Maybe I will revisit this next April and see?

Okay, we have religious nutters predicting all the time.

prometheus comments on Sep 15, 2020:

You missed out China cashing out of the Dollar to have less than a trillion left in foreign reserves. By the time 45 is 86-ed they will have a lot of leverage and little risk in further fucking with the US and getting another one of those great deals Trump hates. Pretty sure this was all planned ...

273kelvin replies on Sep 15, 2020:

I did say something about the world cashing in America's markers and its debt. If China starts then the ROTW will not be far behind

Notifications busted?

Fernapple comments on Sep 14, 2020:

Mine are not working well, I can see them if I click on them but the number on the bell has gone.

273kelvin replies on Sep 14, 2020:

Ask not for whom the bell tolls

Hi, this is my first time here. Can I suggest a group? Thanks.

Seeker3CO comments on Sep 12, 2020:

Of course you can suggest a group

273kelvin replies on Sep 13, 2020:

@WonderWartHog99 How about this one "We have to take this to the old man" 1939 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fks6t

Hi, this is my first time here. Can I suggest a group? Thanks.

Seeker3CO comments on Sep 12, 2020:

Of course you can suggest a group

273kelvin replies on Sep 13, 2020:

@DUCHESSA The Spanish idea sounds good but I'm not sure about "Foreign contributions to mankind: Who, what, when and benefits..." It does sound a little of American arrogance. I mean the world has been around for a hell of a long time before 1776 and it is a lot bigger than 50 states. I mean where do you start, the wheel, fire, boats, the printing press, railways or cars (yes that one goes to Mercedes)

Another thread that came up last night.

itsmedammit comments on Sep 10, 2020:

I adored that comedian woman when she was on doc martin. This show looks funny too. Just wish they'd ditch the laugh track.

273kelvin replies on Sep 10, 2020:

Yeah they are annoying, even if its "filmed before a live audience"

Since signing-up for this website (almost a year ago) and 'joining' the Music Fans group I have ...

bigpawbullets comments on Sep 9, 2020:

I think you might want to switch to decaf. In my experience, @Marionville has always been very adult in managing her groups.

273kelvin replies on Sep 10, 2020:

@FearlessFly Maybe the British did not gain an empire by being polite but we do maintain the Commonwealth by being so. FYI this is the largest ex-wives club in the world. No other former imperial power has such good relations with their ex-colonies. (Take a look the French, Spanish, Turkish, and Russian exes). So with as, many are saying the American empire is in decline, Perhaps good manours it might be a new useful skill that some of you yanks could acquire.

Ryan's Daughter 1970 Have you sen this movie? I loved it. [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2020:

Agreed, not a favourite of mine, but David Lean at his very best.

273kelvin replies on Sep 9, 2020:

Not his best work IMHO. I much prefer his earlier films "Hobson's choice" "In which we serve" And some of his later epics like "Dr Zivargo" and "Bridge over the river Kwi"

Okay, the internet wins and I am now convinced that all you have to do is have an opinion for it to ...

mischl comments on Sep 7, 2020:

Okay, I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

273kelvin replies on Sep 8, 2020:

Mine is bigger but it doesn't weigh anything

Okay, the internet wins and I am now convinced that all you have to do is have an opinion for it to ...

Lorajay comments on Sep 7, 2020:

O dear I don't have an upstairs window.

273kelvin replies on Sep 7, 2020:

@Petter I`m beginning to have second thoughts about abandoning gravity. Its 1.25 am here and already problems have arisen. For one thing its really hard to flush my toilet

Okay, the internet wins and I am now convinced that all you have to do is have an opinion for it to ...

Lorajay comments on Sep 7, 2020:

O dear I don't have an upstairs window.

273kelvin replies on Sep 7, 2020:

@Petter Okay you're correct, So she would have to blow through the open window.

Okay, the internet wins and I am now convinced that all you have to do is have an opinion for it to ...

Lorajay comments on Sep 7, 2020:

O dear I don't have an upstairs window.

273kelvin replies on Sep 7, 2020:

Oh, that`s okay because all you have to do is blow gently on your building and it will float up to the right position.

Okay, the internet wins and I am now convinced that all you have to do is have an opinion for it to ...

FrayedBear comments on Sep 7, 2020:

What bad dope have you been smoking Kelvin? Aha got it! you distilled a batch of absinthe! 😁

273kelvin replies on Sep 7, 2020:

@FrayedBear I might start my own removal firm

Okay, the internet wins and I am now convinced that all you have to do is have an opinion for it to ...

FrayedBear comments on Sep 7, 2020:

What bad dope have you been smoking Kelvin? Aha got it! you distilled a batch of absinthe! 😁

273kelvin replies on Sep 7, 2020:

No, it is just the continuance of the logic from anti-science idiots. Nowadays opinions = facts and everyone's opinion is as good as anyone else, so if I say there is no gravity then there isn't any.

Okay, the internet wins and I am now convinced that all you have to do is have an opinion for it to ...

azzow2 comments on Sep 7, 2020:

I then will then counter your wish and claim to live in the Playboy Mansion with exclusive access to all of its amenities.

273kelvin replies on Sep 7, 2020:

But the water won't stay in the jacuzzi because gravity is a myth,

Another thread that came up last night.

PenLOP comments on Sep 6, 2020:

I love that show. It is on Netflix here in the US. The writing and the ensemble cast are hard to beat.

273kelvin replies on Sep 7, 2020:

Have you seen O`Dowd in the Christopher Guest (Spinal Tap) show "Family Tree"?

Another thread that came up last night.

TheGreatShadow comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Love that show! When I grow up I wanna be like Moss! But, I'm realistically Roy. Richmond is awesome. Second only to Seinfeld. Yesterday's Jam is the funniest one. The Last Bit was very funny as well. Have you watched Father Ted or How Not To Live Your Life? Made by the same guy. EDIT: For ...

273kelvin replies on Sep 5, 2020:

@TheGreatShadow I actually met a priest like father Jack once. I tried to put an Ikea cabinet up for him but there was a design fault. He phoned up Ikea and the expletives that came when they said they had had a lot of problems with it was amazing. "Yer feckin bastards, Yer didn`t tell me that when yer took me feckin money did yer?"

I stole this from FB but left the authors name on it.

Magister comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Nearly as stupid as a government that quarantines a nation, but allows international travel to and from countries where covid was problematic. It isn't as stupid as people who holiday abroad, then return to the UK and 'self-isolate' by then spending that period on holiday in Devon and Cornwall.

273kelvin replies on Sep 4, 2020:

@Magister The only Bernard Manning joke that I repeat, "Maggie Thatcher said that the unemployed don't want to work. Well I've got news for you Mrs Thatcher, the employed don't want to bloody word either"

I stole this from FB but left the authors name on it.

Magister comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Nearly as stupid as a government that quarantines a nation, but allows international travel to and from countries where covid was problematic. It isn't as stupid as people who holiday abroad, then return to the UK and 'self-isolate' by then spending that period on holiday in Devon and Cornwall.

273kelvin replies on Sep 4, 2020:

People are finding the isolation rules very hard to follow in the UK but they are quite simple. You cannot go and see anyone unless you are spending plastic in which case it's okay

Another thread that came up last night.

TheGreatShadow comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Love that show! When I grow up I wanna be like Moss! But, I'm realistically Roy. Richmond is awesome. Second only to Seinfeld. Yesterday's Jam is the funniest one. The Last Bit was very funny as well. Have you watched Father Ted or How Not To Live Your Life? Made by the same guy. EDIT: For ...

273kelvin replies on Sep 4, 2020:

Father Ted was brilliant not watched the other one though

Following on from a zoom subject tonight... [youtu.be]

Transition1 comments on Sep 4, 2020:

One of my favorites!!😎 Too bad she’s gone 😳

273kelvin replies on Sep 4, 2020:

So true but what a great final album to go out on

Not my dad...

273kelvin comments on Sep 1, 2020:

I do have 2 kids that have never met.

273kelvin replies on Sep 1, 2020:

@sassygirl3869 Yep my eldest daughter and I have not spoken to each other for 20 odd years. I am not saying that I was without fault and was not an ass but her mom is a lying bitch and lots more stuff than I was guilty of got laid on me. Plus from what I hear she is a bit of a cow herself. The upshot is my youngest Emily has never met her sister. Even though there were yearly X-mas cards between moms. Seems that If Emily has anything to do with me, my eldest will not talk to her. I told Em that maybe she could write an old fashioned letter and see what happens but she takes the view that if her sis is going to be like that then she doesn't need that shit either.

Ok single mingle friends.

273kelvin comments on Aug 29, 2020:

I met a very eccentric musician called Kevin Ayers (Soft Machine, Gong). Who showed me THE fastest way to get pissed. First, a shot of tequila complete with salt and lemon, then a shot of Southern Comfort (Baileys will do), repeat until done. The 1st shot is too sharp, the next too sweet and so it ...

273kelvin replies on Aug 30, 2020:

@GwenBFree You say that like it is a BAD thing?

I asked my boss "What shall I do with this 2 metre roll of bubble wrap?

FrayedBear comments on Aug 26, 2020:

Excellent LMAO. Did he dock your wages?

273kelvin replies on Aug 26, 2020:

No, but he did charge me for post and packaging

Opinion | One nation ‘under God’?

MakeItGood comments on Aug 26, 2020:

Yep. I think we have may to thank the internet social media for this. Youtube, facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr are now in the hands of young people in very small town and they get an early education of the reality of life that contradicts pretty much anything the church throws at them. Heck, I ...

273kelvin replies on Aug 26, 2020:

I think you are wrong in the assumption that the pandemic will create more converts. In fact, I think it may well accelerate the move towards secularism. This comes down to the alt-right Christian fundamentalists. Ordinary Americans will look at them refusing to wear masks, insisting on large non-social distancing church gatherings and generally being a pain in the ass when it comes to getting rid of this. Plus there is their full-on support of 45 which will not go down well when he is out of office and ALL the dirty dealings come out. I do appreciate that not all Christians are evangelicals but they do makeup 26% of the US and are by far the most vocal. So it will be they who are judged when people look back on this not the science-based secularists

Well, I am back home after working away in Manchester.

FrayedBear comments on Aug 23, 2020:

That's a great report Kelvin. I've passed it through to "Tales from the Lockdown Group". Thanks. Good luck with the moonshine. Is it legal now? 45 years ago you were limited to wine.

273kelvin replies on Aug 24, 2020:

@FrayedBear I am talking major amounts of smuggled tobacco. Nearly every small Asian shop has pouches under the counter. My moonshine is not even in the excise mans radar.

Well, I am back home after working away in Manchester.

FrayedBear comments on Aug 23, 2020:

That's a great report Kelvin. I've passed it through to "Tales from the Lockdown Group". Thanks. Good luck with the moonshine. Is it legal now? 45 years ago you were limited to wine.

273kelvin replies on Aug 24, 2020:

@FrayedBear I am small potatoes, there is huge tobacco rings that I take advantage of. No this is home consumption but if someone want to barter then...

Well, I am back home after working away in Manchester.

FrayedBear comments on Aug 23, 2020:

That's a great report Kelvin. I've passed it through to "Tales from the Lockdown Group". Thanks. Good luck with the moonshine. Is it legal now? 45 years ago you were limited to wine.

273kelvin replies on Aug 24, 2020:

@FrayedBear I may barter it.

There's a user I've been trying to block and still see her posts. Is there anything I can do?

MissKathleen comments on Aug 23, 2020:

If you are a moderator in the group where you see the posts, you will always see everyone’s posts there.

273kelvin replies on Aug 23, 2020:

@Theresa_N Ah yes, we decided that the community senate was the only group you cannot block someone from. This was to give everyone a chance to be heard and have an open discussion. Obviously abusive, out-of-order comments or posts will carry admin penalties but if it is only one group we can all put up with the blocked person.

Does anyone really care that there is no afterlife?

Besalbub comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I'd love to meet my ancestors and my dad died when I was young so I'd like to see him and talk to him as an adult . I might be disappointed . I don't doubt there is a after life as far as seeing passed loved ones Don't know and don't care I'll take anything comming my way though .

273kelvin replies on Aug 23, 2020:

@Besalbub I doubt if there is anyone who does not talk to their dead parent in their head. I know I do even now and its been over 30 years

Just when you think you've heard it all, you learn that masks are a pagan practice.

273kelvin comments on Aug 23, 2020:

Well, the alt-right Christian nutcases have finally shot themselves in the foot. They hitched their political wagon to an incompetent, philandering indefensible conman and now cry foul over basic common sense. There is nowhere in the bible that says that a face mask is wrong. Homosexuality or blood ...

273kelvin replies on Aug 23, 2020:

@Gwendolyn2018 I think that a lot of good Christian people are gonna think the same way.

Well, I am back home after working away in Manchester.

FrayedBear comments on Aug 23, 2020:

That's a great report Kelvin. I've passed it through to "Tales from the Lockdown Group". Thanks. Good luck with the moonshine. Is it legal now? 45 years ago you were limited to wine.

273kelvin replies on Aug 23, 2020:

I think it's still (scuz pun) illegal here. I did hear that my great aunt Emma got done in the 60s for making vodka

Well, I am back home after working away in Manchester.

sassygirl3869 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

Hi Kelvin!!!! Welcome back!! Hope to see you for Trivia Zoom tonight. Sent you a link.

273kelvin replies on Aug 23, 2020:

Yes indeady

something got my attention while i was watching one of closer to truth's episodes, the opinion ...

Marionville comments on Aug 23, 2020:

When one has already decided on something being factual without evidence, this way of working backwards to build evidence to justify it, is always going to be full of fallacious arguments and highly imaginative guesswork. It’s often what happens with the police in criminal cases..they decide who ...

273kelvin replies on Aug 23, 2020:

It is not off the subject at all. Logic and flawed logic are comparable in all cases.

Does anyone really care that there is no afterlife?

Besalbub comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I'd love to meet my ancestors and my dad died when I was young so I'd like to see him and talk to him as an adult . I might be disappointed . I don't doubt there is a after life as far as seeing passed loved ones Don't know and don't care I'll take anything comming my way though .

273kelvin replies on Aug 23, 2020:

I was lucky that I did get to talk to dad as an adult or maybe I made my own luck. We cannot go back, only forward. The best you can do is make time for your kids/grandkids and talk to them as you would have wanted to talk to your elders.

I post this here because there are so many old references to a world now gone.

dave1459 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I've never been able to get anything for a quid. Not sure what it is except English money.

273kelvin replies on Aug 23, 2020:

British and formally Australian money. I did hear that Trump can get things for a quid without allegedly any pro quo

The antagonism to science, as it's ever increasing in our country, is taking us on a path to ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 20, 2020:

"How do you get people to embrace that which they don't understand without calling it religion and making the cornerstone faith, which is antithetical to science itself?" I don't think you can. While I wouldn't call it a religion, I challenge anyone who promotes science to explain even the basics...

273kelvin replies on Aug 21, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay You did not need it for Greek but it was indispensable to learn Egyptian hieroglyphs

The antagonism to science, as it's ever increasing in our country, is taking us on a path to ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 20, 2020:

"How do you get people to embrace that which they don't understand without calling it religion and making the cornerstone faith, which is antithetical to science itself?" I don't think you can. While I wouldn't call it a religion, I challenge anyone who promotes science to explain even the basics...

273kelvin replies on Aug 21, 2020:

@Amzungu Sorry but I stand with Dawkins on this one. Evolution is the rosetta stone of biology. Once it is grasped then everything else falls into place. Why are there such different plants like poison ivy and strawberries? Why do I have an appendix? Why do I have a lighter skin colour than my neighbour? Why are cattle destroying the Montana grassland? Without evolution, you are stuck with "Because God made them all that way". Hardly an understanding at all.

Really getting tired of the sites spell check telling me words are misspelled when they are not.

273kelvin comments on Aug 20, 2020:

I`ve been waiting for 3 years for the apostrophe situation to be sorted. Words, like aren`t, isn`t and it`s have to be put in by spellcheck otherwise you sometimes get a new paragraph

273kelvin replies on Aug 21, 2020:

@FrayedBear All of those are fine if I use them for the apostrophes but if I put it in manually then the above happens. This is the only place where this occurs. It never happens on FB, email, or even in the messages of this site

The antagonism to science, as it's ever increasing in our country, is taking us on a path to ...

273kelvin comments on Aug 20, 2020:

I do not think it is an opposition to science per se, rather than an opposition to science that clashes with what they want to do/think. For example, a Christian may argue with you online about evolution. They will have no trouble with Ohms theorem, Faraday's laws, or even Einstien`s as means of ...

273kelvin replies on Aug 21, 2020:

@FearlessFly Ah yes the Copernican revolution, so typical of the gulf between faith and reason. Firstly because heliocentrism is not self-evident. Just like the dog chasing a squirrel around a tree, one can say that the squirrel orbits the dog just as easily as vice versa. It also gave us our scientific martyr. The major point is that both systems worked it's just that Ptolemy's geocentric model was a pig's ear of a system, whereas the Copernican viewpoint best described the heavens. It is that word "best" that so many theists have a problem with. All scientific law and theory are based upon a qualitative judgement, which theists wrongly take to mean subjective or partially subjective. "If evolution is only a theory then why cannot creationism be accepted as such?" Unlike scripture which is supposed to be immutable (although one would hardly think so considering all the theological arguments over the centuries), science is more akin to a chess opening which states that this is the best move until someone comes up with a better one. Theists only see the fact that it can be changed or amended, they fail to see the immense amount of work that brought us to this point. And that it was done from a pure secularist standpoint not to piss them off but because their starting point is irrelevant. If the bible said that the earth rested on a giant turtle as one other religion does. Then there would be some professor in somewhere like Bosman Montana, claiming to have "proof" that it was true. Like a bad detective, they have their culprit now all they have to do is prove that he did it.

Was told by my ex... i had lesbian fingers... Should I take that as a compliment?

Rignor comments on Aug 19, 2020:

Many years ago, I was involved with a woman who said she was bisexual. She related how she had always gravitated to those who played certain instruments. She said guitar and piano players were her favorite. Intrigued, I pressed her for details, and the obvious dexterity was the answer. However, she ...

273kelvin replies on Aug 20, 2020:

@AnneWimsey Well hellllooooo

The antagonism to science, as it's ever increasing in our country, is taking us on a path to ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 20, 2020:

"How do you get people to embrace that which they don't understand without calling it religion and making the cornerstone faith, which is antithetical to science itself?" I don't think you can. While I wouldn't call it a religion, I challenge anyone who promotes science to explain even the basics...

273kelvin replies on Aug 20, 2020:

I think that the evolution aguement is becoming more relevant in the wake of COVID-19. Many top scientists have looked at the DNA structure of this virus and conclude that it is NOT man-made. However, this conclusion is based upon the evidence that it evolved. They have found no genetic duck-tape so to speak ie no inserted DNA. Without a basic understanding of evolution, one cannot hope to grasp the complexities of biology.

Was told by my ex... i had lesbian fingers... Should I take that as a compliment?

Rignor comments on Aug 19, 2020:

Many years ago, I was involved with a woman who said she was bisexual. She related how she had always gravitated to those who played certain instruments. She said guitar and piano players were her favorite. Intrigued, I pressed her for details, and the obvious dexterity was the answer. However, she ...

273kelvin replies on Aug 19, 2020:

Smart girls go for harmonica players too.

Awhile back , one of my cats brought me a present of a live rat , at 2:30 AM.

Petter comments on Aug 16, 2020:

You should have eaten it right away, as the cat intended you to do. 😂😂

273kelvin replies on Aug 19, 2020:

@Cast1es There are some rat recipes by the famous French chef Auguste Escoffier. He produced them during the siege of Paris 1870-1871.

Goodnight - how's everyone doing this week?

273kelvin comments on Aug 13, 2020:

Try a Netflix film 'the party'

273kelvin replies on Aug 14, 2020:

@RavenCT B/W great twist I have think you would remember it.

Watched the 'The Firm" again with girlfriend.

273kelvin comments on Aug 4, 2020:

I would have put "the colour of money" in but that's because "the Hustler" the was so good

273kelvin replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@Storm1752 Last samurai, even Timothy Spall couldn't lift it

Trump to order China’s ByteDance to its U.S. operations of TikTok. [youtube.]

K9Kohle789 comments on Jul 31, 2020:

cuz he hears that sound in his sleep....tiktok...countdown to V-day VOTE BLUE!

273kelvin replies on Aug 2, 2020:

@K9Kohle789 I think that the battleground will be postal voting. If he can ban that in enough states them maybe. The democrats really need to push their voters to send off their votes ASAP because the GOP is closing polling stations faster than Trump closed his casino.

Trump to order China’s ByteDance to its U.S. operations of TikTok. [youtube.]

K9Kohle789 comments on Jul 31, 2020:

cuz he hears that sound in his sleep....tiktok...countdown to V-day VOTE BLUE!

273kelvin replies on Aug 1, 2020:

@St-Sinner This ain't no poll or political manoeuvre. This is hard cash betting. At nearly 2/1 in a 2 horse race when the incumbent has an historical advantage of 3/1. You can say that this is one sick pony.

Trump to order China’s ByteDance to its U.S. operations of TikTok. [youtube.]

K9Kohle789 comments on Jul 31, 2020:

cuz he hears that sound in his sleep....tiktok...countdown to V-day VOTE BLUE!

273kelvin replies on Jul 31, 2020:

@St-Sinner You can get 9/5 for him to win 2020 online betting. (I can do this because I don't live in the land of the free)

US coronavirus: Nation could see deaths in the 'multiple hundreds of thousands,' group says - CNN

SeaGreenEyez comments on Jul 29, 2020:

What's shocking is how hard hit and disproportionate the minority communities have suffered, I said it early on, when Trump blatantly lied and played down the severity: Hitler had gas chambers, Trump has COVID. (The attached website link is jarring. To think African Americans are 13% of the ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 31, 2020:

@RussRAB it's not just health care. We have universal health care here but a higher death rate per capita. Many ethnic families live in large family groups and need to go out to earn.

Hi folks, still working away in Manchester.

TheDoubter comments on Jul 30, 2020:

great view

273kelvin replies on Jul 30, 2020:

Yeah if I peer between the skyscrapers, I can see Wales. Which is what I can see from home but I'm getting the Pennines as well +Manchester city

Hi folks, still working away in Manchester.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jul 30, 2020:

## Can you go out on the balcony with a charcoal grill and a cold drink yet?

273kelvin replies on Jul 30, 2020:

Beer yes bbq no. One of the lads slept on the balcony Tuesday night

Hi folks, still working away in Manchester.

Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Quite an adventure ☺😜

273kelvin replies on Jul 30, 2020:

Sorry CB my reply is in comments. New phone

Just a question. Can you get a 'double point', first reply bonus by replying to your OWN post?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Yes but it shows you up as a complete tit

273kelvin replies on Jul 26, 2020:

@FrayedBear Yes Manchester is now sorted and I will be back there on Monday night

Hi folks, not too active online atm.

sassygirl3869 comments on Jul 25, 2020:

Hey Kelvin-sorry it didn't work out. See you at Zoom Trivia?

273kelvin replies on Jul 26, 2020:

I will be in trivia tonight but it has worked out, just a whole load of teething problems. The lift is now working, the boss gave us a pep talk and assured us that the construction guys are not hostile. I will be going back on Monday night.

Hi folks, not too active online atm.

Jolanta comments on Jul 23, 2020:

I hope you are standing up for your Eastern European work mate.

273kelvin replies on Jul 24, 2020:

@Jolanta things a little better now. The lifts working and the boss gave everyone a pep talk

Just a question. Can you get a 'double point', first reply bonus by replying to your OWN post?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Yes but it shows you up as a complete tit

273kelvin replies on Jul 24, 2020:

Fb post, which I can't show coz it's late and... Actual London underground sign If you're using a mask made from a bra. Please be sure to use the left cup as you would not like to look like a right tit.

Hi folks, not too active online atm.

Jolanta comments on Jul 23, 2020:

I hope you are standing up for your Eastern European work mate.

273kelvin replies on Jul 23, 2020:

Well there's quite a few fellow scousers on site. I think I might have an informal chat tomorrow morning around the communal kettle. Maybe if they hear a familiar accent from our team, things might run smoother. Can't hurt

Will the news headlines in the future read something like this?

273kelvin comments on Jul 20, 2020:

I think that we might have heard about all those surgeons and operating staff that have been dropping like flies since Edward Jenner introduced them in Victorian times. Not to mention scuba divers, paint sprayers, MDMF workers and such like. Define "prolonged", we have them as mandatory on public ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 20, 2020:

@azzow2 Most of the masks I saw today (yes I was out travelling) were either the simple N95 medical masks or fancy simple black cloth ones. If you really do object to these? Feel free to make your own from organically sourced Irish linen.

MAGA Cultist Pastor: If Churches Don’t Open Their Doors ASAP, the Communists Win | Hemant Mehta |...

273kelvin comments on Jul 17, 2020:

Picture the scene if you will; London 1940, air raid warnings and people hurrying to shelters. Wondering if their homes will be there in the morning? All except for one southern baptist minister who exclaims "You can't tell me to put my lights off or draw the curtains. I am an American citizen and ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@LimitedLight I get that and our idiot is not much better. We actually have a worse per capita record than you so far. I think we should ignore them both and follow the experts. More importantly, we should get everyone else to do so too. There is nothing to be done about Trump till November and even then he's POTUS till January.

MAGA Cultist Pastor: If Churches Don’t Open Their Doors ASAP, the Communists Win | Hemant Mehta |...

273kelvin comments on Jul 17, 2020:

Picture the scene if you will; London 1940, air raid warnings and people hurrying to shelters. Wondering if their homes will be there in the morning? All except for one southern baptist minister who exclaims "You can't tell me to put my lights off or draw the curtains. I am an American citizen and ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@LimitedLight No, people were not so bloody dumb back then. There was plainly a common enemy and folks got behind the message. Take Churchill as a prime example. Most will know him as a great orator and leader. Fewer will know him as the enemy of the left. An aristocratic strike buster who still thought in terms of the British empire. Yet his cabinet consisted of socialists and union leaders as well as a press baron and industrialists. The point of my humourous rant was to show the absurdity of our current situation. The biggest enemy in the US and for that matter, the world right now is not socialism, popularism, China, global warming or even Donald Trump. The biggest enemy is COVID-19 and until everyone recognises that, things will not improve much.

Religion in schools

DenoPenno comments on Jul 16, 2020:

The only answer to this is to teach all religions. Either you teach all, or teach none. Educators know this. Others who fight for America being a "nation of god" do not. Also, the Constitution has nothing to do with it. Arguments of what part of the world you are in mean nothing. People of various ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@DenoPenno Its like sports teams, every fan is convinced that their team is the best in the world. It just a coincidence that mine Liverpool FC actually is. (You can google it)

Picture the scene if you will; London 1940, air raid warnings and people hurrying to shelters.

Philip21 comments on Jul 17, 2020:

The issue is that these people do not acknowledge that they have no right to be wrong ... when it involves the safety of the multitudes ....

273kelvin replies on Jul 17, 2020:

You guys have a severe problem with leadership. Even the most ardent Trumpist cannot say that he has been Churchillian throughout this. And whilst division may get the popularist vote, it is no good in a storm. Who would have thought that we would look back at G. W. with misty eyes? Our guy is not much better but at least his words are unifying if not his deeds.

Florida Superintendent Says Kids Choose to Be Gay. How Does He Know?

SCal comments on Jul 16, 2020:

I think most do choose. All behavior is learned from environment.

273kelvin replies on Jul 17, 2020:

@SCal I was taught how to speak, walk, read and write. Nobody taught me how to masturbate and certainly not what to masturbate about. Yet you say its all learned behaviour. Who showed you how to wank? Did you think about the girl next door or your friend's mom? Where did you "learn" those preferences? Sexuality is so varied and often perverse. I have come across so many different kinks that I cannot see any learnt patterns. Eg. One lady was into wristwatches. I mean around the man's member. How and where could one "learn" that?

Religion in schools

DenoPenno comments on Jul 16, 2020:

The only answer to this is to teach all religions. Either you teach all, or teach none. Educators know this. Others who fight for America being a "nation of god" do not. Also, the Constitution has nothing to do with it. Arguments of what part of the world you are in mean nothing. People of various ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 17, 2020:

That would be a really long class. I mean how many do you teach? Even an overview of the basics Christian, Islam, Buddist, Taoism etc, would take a while. That`s without even touching on sects and splinter groups baptist, anabaptist, 7-day Adventist shoot it would take me all day to type them. Then you have bios. My daughter attended a Catholic college where they had to teach all religions (our laws are different than yours). She said it was like "Here they all are but ours is the only real one"

Florida Superintendent Says Kids Choose to Be Gay. How Does He Know?

SCal comments on Jul 16, 2020:

I think most do choose. All behavior is learned from environment.

273kelvin replies on Jul 17, 2020:

Just some of the gay guys I know. Tom was always different. I went to the same schools as him from 5-16 years of age. He was the clumsy kid that got kicked out of gardening class at 8 when he put a fork through his foot. He was always picked on and bullied. You have to remember this was the 60s-70s and although being gay was legal, it was only just. Any gays in the media were camp caricatures, Bowie only hit the scene in 70-71 and we didn`t even know he was bi. It was much later when I Tom briefly. His voice had changed and it was obvious he was gay. He did not learn that, where was the role-models? This was a working-class white suburb, you could get the shit kicked out of you for supporting the wrong football team. Brian was half Somali, half white protestant He grew up in Belfast at the height of the troubles. You could get knee-capped if you spoke out of turn. Can you imagine how much stick a camp guy would receive on an orange lodge estate? Again where were his role models? Adian is a nice kid from a good Jewish family. From what I know everyone around him is straight. His bar-mitzvah party theme was "My favourite musicals". You tell me how a 13-year-old boy has made some kind of learnt behaviour choice at that age? I could go on but I think you might need to meet some gay people yourself. (Don't worry it's not contagious)

Florida Superintendent Says Kids Choose to Be Gay. How Does He Know?

SCal comments on Jul 16, 2020:

I think most do choose. All behavior is learned from environment.

273kelvin replies on Jul 17, 2020:

Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice experiment; Go go to a working-class bar, the type of place where guys sweat blood all week to make rent. Then ask a bunch of big guys if any of them will have oral sex with you for a week's wages? See if your wife gets the same response? - Check data and pay the hospital bill. Beer or wine, SUV or hybrid, vegetarian or meat is a lifestyle choice. Homosexuality is not.

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273kelvin comments on Jul 14, 2020:

Question, what do you get for the man who has everything? Answer, a woman who has nothing. Maybe there is some kind of sub-conscience survival thing in us that will latch on to the person we need, rather than think we want? We may want someone freewheeling when an organised partner is better ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 15, 2020:

@JackPedigo Tempted to say that embers need blowing but won't... Yes I will lol

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273kelvin comments on Jul 14, 2020:

Question, what do you get for the man who has everything? Answer, a woman who has nothing. Maybe there is some kind of sub-conscience survival thing in us that will latch on to the person we need, rather than think we want? We may want someone freewheeling when an organised partner is better ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 14, 2020:

@JackPedigo If by Compatability you mean similarities then I beg to differ. Sure similar tastes are essential but there has to be a bit of ying for our yang and vice versa. Consider the survival of our species? If only slobs got with slobs and neat freaks with the same, what would happen over generations? The slobs would all die of botulism and the neats either starve to death because they wouldn`t dirty the kitchen or end up with the immunity of an unopened petri dish.

Here is an old video where Freedom From Religion leaders Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaynor first ...

273kelvin comments on Jul 13, 2020:

I found the atheists responses too weak and was itching to reply myself. The old chestnut of "where is your moral compass without religion?" was not answered well imho. Firstly, to use social control as a basis for belief is both logical and theological fallacies - "You might as well use the same ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 14, 2020:

@itsmedammit I don't know, maybe this virus is showing up the weakness of popularist politics. It is starting to happen in Europe. "An idiot who does my bidding is still an idiot". I hope and believe that the good hardworking people of America may turn on the evangelists when they realise how much longer it takes to get back to a true normal.

Here is an old video where Freedom From Religion leaders Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaynor first ...

273kelvin comments on Jul 13, 2020:

I found the atheists responses too weak and was itching to reply myself. The old chestnut of "where is your moral compass without religion?" was not answered well imho. Firstly, to use social control as a basis for belief is both logical and theological fallacies - "You might as well use the same ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 14, 2020:

@itsmedammit, On the whole, I prefer "The life of Brian" debate. Where Micheal Palin (the nicest man in the world) losses his rag. Then Malcolm Muggeridge and the bishop of Southwark had to admit that they came in 20 minutes late to the movie, missing the plot entirely. 1979 spelt the death knell for Christians trying to impose their rules on the UK.

Church singing ban strikes sour note with California pastor

273kelvin comments on Jul 12, 2020:

On a more secular level, the singing ban might not be as necessary as it seems. A musician friend posted an interesting video/experiment which you might want to try at home. Take a lighted candle and hold it in front of your mouth (Have a lighter handy). First whisper, then talk and then sing. You ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 13, 2020:

@LimitedLight Yeah, the post I saw was from a professional singer. So I suppose the risk is much smaller than from a bunch of Sunday divas

Here is an old video where Freedom From Religion leaders Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaynor first ...

Sgt_Spanky comments on Jul 11, 2020:

Their behavior was very professional but it was frustrating watching them let so many falsifiable comments from the audience and Oprah herself just go by without challenging them. Because of that, I think their appearance on the show left something to be desired. Also, the blonde woman seemed a ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 13, 2020:

I don't think that she was "anti-male" as much as anti-subjugation. The bible relegates half the world into virtual chattels. If I tell you to stfu? You would rightly be pissed. If I tell you to stfu because I have a book from god that says you should? Then you would rightly be pissed at me and my book.

Church singing ban strikes sour note with California pastor

273kelvin comments on Jul 12, 2020:

On a more secular level, the singing ban might not be as necessary as it seems. A musician friend posted an interesting video/experiment which you might want to try at home. Take a lighted candle and hold it in front of your mouth (Have a lighter handy). First whisper, then talk and then sing. You ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 13, 2020:

@Paul4747 True but as the video above shows, it would be the meeting up, talking, hugs and close contact that would be the most dangerous, not the singing.

Church singing ban strikes sour note with California pastor

273kelvin comments on Jul 12, 2020:

On a more secular level, the singing ban might not be as necessary as it seems. A musician friend posted an interesting video/experiment which you might want to try at home. Take a lighted candle and hold it in front of your mouth (Have a lighter handy). First whisper, then talk and then sing. You ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 13, 2020:

@LimitedLight Have you tried it? Its kinda like a water hose when you close it up or open it out. https://youtu.be/s0BhFhdROxI

Back in January (god how long ago that seems) I wrote a short glowing review for "Dracula" BBC.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2020:

I have over the years collected every version of Dracula ever put to film that is available on DVD and VHS, I make a point to read the novel once a year along with Treasure Island it is my favourite book. Two previous version of Dracula produced by the BBC starring Marc Warren and Louis Jourdan ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 12, 2020:

@LenHazell53 I have not seen Palance as Dracula, I will look out for it as a treat. In the meantime a little humour to take the bad taste away or at least change it to good bad taste if you get me? https://youtu.be/4anu5veNhSg

"What will you do to me?

omkaraum comments on Jul 12, 2020:

Ohh lalaa

273kelvin replies on Jul 12, 2020:

There is a 2nd part published here. https://vocal.media/stories/what-will-you-do-to-me-pt-2 Don't worry it's free. The problem is that I have a writers' block on how it will go from here. I`m halfway through part 3 but I think this might be a bigger story than just a short erotic tale. There is backstories, his perspective and most importantly how far will he take her into the outer limits of sexuality?

Back in January (god how long ago that seems) I wrote a short glowing review for "Dracula" BBC.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2020:

I have over the years collected every version of Dracula ever put to film that is available on DVD and VHS, I make a point to read the novel once a year along with Treasure Island it is my favourite book. Two previous version of Dracula produced by the BBC starring Marc Warren and Louis Jourdan ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 12, 2020:

Sorry that you found it not to your tastes. Art is often so subjective. It did receive high critical praise Personally I think that the 2nd half lost a bit of momentum but the reimagining of the Van Helsing character was very creative.

My mom is going back to California in a few days my brother is picking her up from my house so she ...

BitFlipper comments on Jul 11, 2020:

An interesting story, @azzow2. Just yesterday I was standing outside behind a favorite restaurant, talking with a woman I've been interested in for many years. She is in charge of the restaurant and I get to interact verbally with her almost every time I go there. It's nice to be remembered. ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 11, 2020:

@BitFlipper When you run out of things to say and actually long before that, ask about her. This was always my motto. This works with men/women, everyone. If you let people talk about themselves and listen... then you get the reputation as a great conversationalist.

Binge watching courtesy the lockdown.

273kelvin comments on Jul 11, 2020:

Do you have Netflix?

273kelvin replies on Jul 11, 2020:

@Mimee I don't have Amazon but Netflix does me. Here is one that's just come on there. https://agnostic.com/post/445752/the-highlight-of-bbc-chrismas-viewing-dracula-a-superb-adaptation-of-bram-stokers-story-reasona

The Germ Theory of Spirituality [agnostic.com]

273kelvin comments on Jul 11, 2020:

Back in 1991 I thourgherly enjoyed the Richard Dawkins Chrismas lectures. At one point he talked about "mind viruses". He started with a craze that went around his school for making paper swans and how that was localised. Then he went on about wearing baseball caps sideways and how that became more ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 11, 2020:

@skado Evolution is neither good nor bad, it just is. It can make something as wildly successful as a dinosaur only to have them wiped out, something disastrously bad for the planet as humans or send a whole species down a dead-end like giant pandas. The more successful species adapt to new environments, just as some religions have adapted and some dead ones have not.

The Germ Theory of Spirituality [agnostic.com]

273kelvin comments on Jul 11, 2020:

Back in 1991 I thourgherly enjoyed the Richard Dawkins Chrismas lectures. At one point he talked about "mind viruses". He started with a craze that went around his school for making paper swans and how that was localised. Then he went on about wearing baseball caps sideways and how that became more ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 11, 2020:

@skado "Bio/cultural evolution" - unlike the deadly virus that inflicts now that came about due to cultural interaction with unusual food sources and evolved to reap its havoc mmm

The terrorist organization HAMAS has it's hand in many Charities.

Geoffrey51 comments on Jul 10, 2020:

According to United Nations, Hamas is not a terrorist organisation. https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/u-n-general-assembly-rejects-labeling-hamas-a-terrorist-group-1544148593

273kelvin replies on Jul 11, 2020:

There is an awful lot of stuff on both sides that never make the news. Like Hamas tying bombs to helium balloons and letting them float over. The Israelis have made up a little rhyme for the children to teach them not to go near them.

Studying behavior on an autodidact skill level is something I have been doing most of my life and ...

273kelvin comments on Jul 10, 2020:

I have never classically studied them. My brother oversimplifies and puts them into 2 categories - the fuck-off test and the hug test. The former starts with YOU did this, said that, did`nt...etc. This is about defining the power dynamics of the relationship. The latter starts with I..have been at ...

273kelvin replies on Jul 10, 2020:

I think that men classify music into time signatures. keys, chords, riffs, beats, and melodies and women dance. and if we lucky? We can find someone to make music with and dance with.

Have you ever wondered why Donald tRump buys his shoes and socks from England and not America?

273kelvin comments on Jul 4, 2020:

Stops you from getting Mixamytoesies

273kelvin replies on Jul 10, 2020:

@Triphid Hey don't look at me cobber. My ancestors were only a "being caught" away from being yours. :-)

People Who Are Less Religious Are More Accepting of Homosexuality, Report Finds | Hemant Mehta | ...

Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 10, 2020:

That makes sense.. My atheist handbook says nothing about homosexuality :)

273kelvin replies on Jul 10, 2020:

You have a handbook?

Have you ever wondered why Donald tRump buys his shoes and socks from England and not America?

273kelvin comments on Jul 4, 2020:

Stops you from getting Mixamytoesies

273kelvin replies on Jul 10, 2020:

@Triphid Yes know all about the stupid introduction of alien species OZ but the word was deliberately misspelt. Mix-a-my- toe-sies (getit)

Everybody assumes that heaven and hell are above and bellow.

BestWithoutGods comments on Jul 6, 2020:

Being a retired lawyer, I must say that most of my fellow lawyers are good, ethical people. There may be a few bad ones out there, but not all lawyers can be blamed for their unethical behavior. It would be like blaming all police officers for the murder of George Floyd. It's just not right.

273kelvin replies on Jul 6, 2020:

@yvilletom love it, never heard that before

The following is part 1 of a 3 part series: "Understanding Donald Trump, Part I" I do not know...

phoenixone1 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

All very good points but I would like to add that the minute he is NOT POTUS...NY is going to be slamming his bloviated ASS with Indictments for TAX EVASION...and the minute that happens the proverbial "cat" is out of the bag for all his financial dealings...that will open the floodgates of exposure...

273kelvin replies on Jul 6, 2020:

@powder Well hacked then leaked. Isreal is knotty one for me which I have gotten stick about and lost friends from both sides so normally I duck the discussion but hey here goes. (I have a Jewish daughter and her grandparents were Israeli Zionist, so is her mum and friends but I live in Liverpool where Corbyn is God) It's all very well taking the Palestinian side 100% and opposed underdogs are an always very legit cause. Except that not everything is always 100% Unless you say the Isreal has no right to exist, which is what Hamas, Syria and Iran to name few believe. In which case it is war and alls fair... And if Isreal has no right to exist then what of the USA, Canada. NZ and Australia, is there a statute of limitations on land appropriation? If so who decides? would you give up your deeds to any property you own to an Aboriginal tribe if the UN told you too? So let us take the stance that Isreal has a right to be. But it does not have the right to annex any more land but what if they buy it 1st? Ah well under what circumstances? But what about Palestinian rights? Much of their land was stolen but not their country. (Palestine was never a sovereign state) Many fled to other Arab nations yet none of them offered to give them the lands that the Jews left behind in Morroco, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Egypt etc. All were just confiscated at the onset of Isreal. Be that as it's may Isreal owes that debt and it should be paid but for that, you would need some sort of negotiation and its hard to negotiate between two sides that just want to kill each other. After over 70 years of conflict, it's no wonder that Isreal is hard right and hawkish. Same goes for the PLO and Hamas. That is all land rights and sovereignty but what about civil rights? Isreal boasts the best civil rights in the region. All citizens vote some are divided into being eligible for conscription, non-jews can claim exception but Bedouins, Druze and many more Muslims that you would think volunteer. If you were a woman, LGBTQ, or just an ordinary Joe Soap, you would not have a fraction of the rights you would have as an Israeli citizen than ANY other nation in the area. Then that is like saying: "I'm the nicest guy in this nick". Then you get the media portrayal of the whole thing. For the most part, they are like me. Fucked either way so they only do the headlines. Isreal pushes its propaganda and smears anyone that vaguely hints and criticism as antisemitic (I have had this and my daughters Jewish ffs). So most goes unreported, from IDF oppression to Hamas floating Helium balloons with bombs attached for kids to pick up and if you dare try and find any middle ground you are viewed as on the side of the aggressor.

Everybody assumes that heaven and hell are above and bellow.

BestWithoutGods comments on Jul 6, 2020:

Being a retired lawyer, I must say that most of my fellow lawyers are good, ethical people. There may be a few bad ones out there, but not all lawyers can be blamed for their unethical behavior. It would be like blaming all police officers for the murder of George Floyd. It's just not right.

273kelvin replies on Jul 6, 2020:

I am sure you're right but in a PC world, there are few people left that we can unload our sarcastic scorn upon. It may be an unfair cross to bear but someone has to be "it". Besides lawyers have all the best lawyer jokes.

The following is part 1 of a 3 part series: "Understanding Donald Trump, Part I" I do not know...

phoenixone1 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

All very good points but I would like to add that the minute he is NOT POTUS...NY is going to be slamming his bloviated ASS with Indictments for TAX EVASION...and the minute that happens the proverbial "cat" is out of the bag for all his financial dealings...that will open the floodgates of exposure...

273kelvin replies on Jul 6, 2020:

@powder I doubt if the people of Ukraine would agree on your assessment of Russia as "non-aggressive" Neither would Georgia or Chechen. As for Putin getting away with it, that is a lot easier if you remove all political opposition, free press and civil rights, then get yourself made president for life. No wonder Trump has such a schoolboy crush on him. May I add that it was not just social media meddling? There are those leaked Hillary emails. We know from the impeachment how much 45 likes to use foreign states to get political dirt.

The following is part 1 of a 3 part series: "Understanding Donald Trump, Part I" I do not know...

phoenixone1 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

All very good points but I would like to add that the minute he is NOT POTUS...NY is going to be slamming his bloviated ASS with Indictments for TAX EVASION...and the minute that happens the proverbial "cat" is out of the bag for all his financial dealings...that will open the floodgates of exposure...

273kelvin replies on Jul 6, 2020:

@powder There is one very important thing that this current crisis has taught us. Is that is is extremely dangerous to assume that our governments are that smart. With the very notable exception of NZ. All of them have acted in a shortsighted and reckless manner. particularly the US, UK and Russia. Then there is the matter of Russian interference in elections. The Muller report* and huge money for the vote leave campaign (Brexit) in the UK. If you are talking about Ukraine? Let me remind you that they are still in the middle of a bitter war of survival. Russia has annexed the Crimea and not too long ago shot down a commercial airliner. So I don't think that they worry too much about the consequences of their actions. I do agree that there are some very slimy rocks yet to be upturned vis-a-vie Epstein and our supposed great and good. Not least Trump himself. Anyone who looks at his daughter that way obviously has a strong taste for fresh meat. *The report stated that Russia did interfere with the US election. On that they are clear. The only thing that could not say for definite was that Trump's team colluded with them. Yet no action was taken.

A guy from the sticks visits New York for the first time and goes to the roof of a skyscraper.

TheDoubter comments on Jul 5, 2020:

is this funny?

273kelvin replies on Jul 5, 2020:

It is certainly angelic

The following is part 1 of a 3 part series: "Understanding Donald Trump, Part I" I do not know...

RiverRick comments on Jul 5, 2020:

You are preaching to the choir, as it were. If you watch him next time someone else is speaking but he is on stage... Just watch his mannerisms. Just like a 10 year old waiting in line for something. The pre-pubescent fidgeting and twisting at the waist. Plus he seems to slouch over and let his arms...

273kelvin replies on Jul 5, 2020:

@RiverRick Actually, on further thought, it's not that redeeming either